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Cargoes in Motion

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animal trade
Arabian Peninsula
Burkhard Schnepel
cargo
cargo’s material affordances
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connectivity
East Africa
East Asia
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human geography
Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean as relational space
Julia Verne
materiality
Middle East
mobility
object biographies
social anthropology
South Asia
South East Asia
spice trade
transoceanic exchange

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  • ISBN 9780821424612
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: Ohio University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world.

Scholars have long appreciated the centrality of trade and commerce in understanding the connectivity and mobility that underpin human experience in the Indian Ocean region. But studies of merchant and commercial activities have paid little attention to the role that cargoes have played in connecting the disparate parts of this vast oceanic world. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, geographers, and historians, Cargoes in Motion tells the story of how material objects have informed and continue to shape processes of exchange across the Indian Ocean.
By following selected cargoes through both space and time, this book makes an important and innovative contribution to Indian Ocean studies. The multidisciplinary approach deepens our understanding of the nature and dynamics of the Indian Ocean world by showing how transoceanic connectivity has been driven not only by economic, social, cultural, and political factors but also by the materiality of the objects themselves.

Essays by:
Edward A. Alpers
Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Eva-Maria Knoll
Karl-Heinz Kohl
Lisa Jenny Krieg
Pedro Machado
Rupert Neuhöfer
Mareike Pampus
Hannah Pilgrim
Burkhard Schnepel
Hanne Schönig
Tansen Sen
Steven Serels
Julia Verne
Kunbing Xiao
About
Burkhard Schnepel is a professor of social anthropology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. From 2013 to 2020, he was head of the Connectivity in Motion: Port Cities of the Indian Ocean fellows group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. He is the author of The King’s Three Bodies: Essays on Kingship and Ritual and a coeditor of Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World. Julia Verne is a professor of cultural geography at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, where she leads a research group on mobility, materiality, and maritimity, with a focus on the western Indian Ocean. Her publications include Living Translocality: Space, Culture, and Economy in Contemporary Swahili Trade and several articles discussing the Indian Ocean as a relational space.